Kyle S. Doan
Indiana State University
Email: doanks@gmail.com [Unable to attend. Please contact Kyle via email]
Poetry and Pong: Approaching Videogames from a Literary Stance
Videogames are a budding interactive digital art form that, until now, has been scarcely discussed except to point out the violence, misogyny, and racism their critics find offensive. I will use the game Braid, by Jonathan Blow, to illustrate how a close reading of videogames offers a fresh new avenue of criticism in the field. I will be showing both screenshots and video from the game to highlight key points of literary comparison, and to demonstrate the new theoretical grounds on which this approach can be built.
Indiana State University
Email: doanks@gmail.com
[Unable to attend. Please contact Kyle via email]
Poetry and Pong: Approaching Videogames from a Literary Stance
Videogames are a budding interactive digital art form that, until now, has been scarcely discussed except to point out the violence, misogyny, and racism their critics find offensive. I will use the game Braid, by Jonathan Blow, to illustrate how a close reading of videogames offers a fresh new avenue of criticism in the field. I will be showing both screenshots and video from the game to highlight key points of literary comparison, and to demonstrate the new theoretical grounds on which this approach can be built.